Chap. 2.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact. section 2083 of the Code of 1887, in relation to fishing with pound nets in
the waters of the eastern side of Chesapeake bay, approved March 28, 1902.

Approved July 28, 1902.

Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of Virginia, That section two
thousand and eighty-three of the Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, as amended by an act approved February seventeen, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, and further amended by an act approved March twenty-
eighth, nineteen hundred and two, in relation to fishing with pound nets
on the eastern side of Chesapeake bay, be amended and re-enacted to read
as follows:

§ 2083. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with a purse net or
pound net in any of the rivers of this State, or within one mile of the
mouth of any river, except that the pound net may be used in the Pianki-
tank river, or to fish with purse nets in crecks, or within half a mile of the
shore of Chesapeake bay, within the limits of Elizabeth City, Accomac,
and Northampton counties, or to set any pound, or to take fish by means
thereof, in any creek within the counties of Accomac and Northampton,
or in the Chesapeake bay, between the first day of May and the first day
of June in any vear on the eastern side of said bay. And all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage, on the ground that it is
an emergency bill, for otherwise the fishing scason of the year nineteen
hundred and two would be ended before this act hecame operative, and
many thousands of dollars would be sacrificed.